Federated services have always had privacy issues but I expected Lemmy would have the fewest, but it’s visibly worse for privacy than even Reddit.
- Deleted comments remain on the server but hidden to non-admins, the username remains visible
- Deleted account usernames remain visible too
- Anything remains visible on federated servers!
- When you delete your account, media does not get deleted on any server
I assume anything I post online to remain there forever anyways. That’s why I regularly make a new account so atleast everything isn’t behind one username
Lemmy is newish software. I assume everyone operates in the worst-case scenario too - but that doesn’t mean we should code with the worst-case scenario for privacy as some goal or built-in concession.